GOP Memo 'Splains Losing House, Senate, WH A Beautiful 'Gift', Like Herpes, That Keeps On Giving

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.wonkette.com/gop-internal-memo-urges-party-to-embrace-trumps-beautiful-gift-of-national-pariah-status

"President Trump gave the Republican Party a political gift: we are now the party supported by most working-class voters. The question is whether Republicans reject that gift or unwrap it and permanently become the Party of the Working Class."

Thus begins an "URGENT" memo drafted for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy by Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, head of the House conservative bloc's Republican Study Committee, and obtained by Axios. It's an odd way to describe the loss of the House, Senate, and White House in the past four years, but nevertheless.

And in the grand tradition of "my 'party of working class voters' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered," it's followed by this graphic:

So, when Rep. Banks says "most working-class voters," what he means is white working class voters. Because Republicans may be making inroads with voters of color, but they're still far, far behind Democrats when it comes to Latino and Black Americans.

Luckily, the congressman has a solution for that and it is CULTURE WAR.

Anti-Wokeness: Wokeness was cooked up by college professors, then boosted by corporations, which is why it's now an official part of the Democrat Party platform. Nothing better encapsulates Democrats' elitism and classism than their turn towards "wokeness." Wokeness and identity politics aren't pro-Hispanic, pro-African American or pro-LQBTQ; they're antiAmerican, anti-women, and most of all, anti-working class.

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[soothsayer]

1. Good. Raise the minimum wage.

[PortTack]

2. "Making inroads with POC." What..they went from 3% to 5%??

[Probatim]

4. In his defense, it's a 60% increase in that segment...

[gopiscrap]

10. welcome to DU

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Biden won working class voters by a lot over Trump.

What Kevin meant was white working class voters.

But overall, Biden won those making less than $50,000 by ten points and those making $50,000 to $99,9999 by 15 points.

Trump did win those making $100,000 or more by 12 points, tho.

[ShazamIam]

5. Republicans seem clueless that the "American." laboring class called the working class, is now made

made up of immigrants, both legal as refugees and undocumented and HB2 (skilled labor) work visas.

Some have become Citizens and others have children who are born here and many more reach voting age every year.

When a Republican says, working class, they mean the once well paid and mostly white, factory workers who were wiped out in the late 70s and early 80s by mergers and buyouts, mass offshoring of jobs to Taiwan, N. Korea, Indonesia, China, along with union busting.

Republicans are chasing a vanishing voter base.

Their only real chances as has been true since the 2000 election is voter suppression, it does seem to work for them.

[crickets]

7. Well said.

Welcome to DU, ShazamIam.

[ShazamIam]

9. Thank you for the welcome. nt

[2naSalit]

6. Doublespeak...

It works on the minions.

[Baked Potato]

8. T***p also increased Bull Horn sales many-fold. And cheap China made US flags.

T***p talked but never delivered. Can’t eat hate. Hate don’t pay the bills. Culture wars can be blunted with a deaf ear and thicker skin.